Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-14
ealed, the enchanted scales were soon to

seaIeQ, the encnanteQ scales were soon &
fall.
In less than week the infatuated Ia,
knew ail-or nearly SO; that his wife wa
an inebriate, and in spite of entrestie
and warnings, received the visits of Va
Bike, D'Oyley and other objectionabl,
men in his absence; and when remon.
strated with, became a5ueive-actusll,
coarse.
"You have no right to control me-
she said, defantlY; az shall go where
Will-do what choose"
"Oh, Irene-surely L hsve right-tha-
OF husband-the man who loves you.'
"Bah!n
It was open war from that moment.
She had often become apparently
| hysteric&l, when the pretended cousin
was his existence myth-hRd been re-
terred to; but her attacks of hysteria
were terribly accounted for now.
The once sweetly sorrowful eyes that
seemed to say-so thought weak Digby-
it was almost sin to say he loved her,
were changed in expression now. Could
it be in nature that her sole face, With all
its playful changes, her beautiful form SO
full OF grace and all that was alluring,
could hide soul so subtle, so vile, so
coarse and despicable?
He had soon discovered that mentally
and morally she was profoundly his in
ierjoT: but for her actual ignorance, in
tensely bad style, aud more than all for
her fury and rawlings when crossed, he
was no way prepared. His first senss-
ton was dumb, gnaWing, grinding pain.
Of nature impossible to describe; It
seemed TO affect him In body and soul,
and for hours he thought he felt nothing
else.
The agony of regret for his broken idol
his suddenly shattered idesl-was al
most less, after time, than the emotion
OF amazement at his own rashness, blind
ness and stupendous fo!ly-the result Of
his ignorance of society, Of the world, and
Of the female portion thereof in per-
ticulGr.
He had blighted and destroyed his
young life st it's very outset.
With this conviction q great horror
came upon him, and he remembered to
have read that "Deathemsy take our dear
ones and their places may be flied up in
our heart; but never again can life re-
store TO US the broken hopes, the shatter-
ed Illusions of our youths fond imagin-
tngs. These things once slain, have per-
ished for ever"
She Knocked him at last and treated
him with defiance and contempt.
Montressor heard her words as Of,
those OF some one In a hollow place or far
away. They sounded at first vague,
and then stunning and ter,
rible. They cut into his heart like sword
hlE HnG and for Innnr bn
in the dim confusion of his soul, how he
left her presence.
But action was necessary. He settled
an income on her, and as his finances
were thus embarrassed, he exchanged
from the Lancers into the Infantry, and
for service abroad.
Exc he went, he offered her d good
round sum TO go out to Canada, Wnere
she had relatives, according to her own
The money seemed to tempt
her; she closed with his proposal-took q
farewell Of him, and the ship
sailed in due time, but never reached the
shores Of America.
She foundered at sea, and among the
list Of the drowned cabin passengers-
with heart that thrilled to It's core with
great horror and greater relief mingled
read the name Of his wife!
1t WAS when our regiment was in South
Africa, engaged in Zulu war, and forming
a part of Sir Evelyn Woods column, that
this intelligence-fatal he could not deem
Digby Montressor, and from
that moment he became the Jolly and
happy fellow the mess knew him to be
then, and afterwards on service and in
India.
But the second portion of this story
was an equally disastrous one.
ITO be Continued Ne1f Week.